Hey everyone, hope Xmas and New Years is going well. I’ve got a great idea for a future challenge if you want something to during the January blues. OK here goes, how about we do a weekend challenge where the theme is ‘Finish Each Others Games’. The basic idea is that you take an existing game, it can be incomplete or complete, retrieve the source code and add your own elements/levels/art to it. The aim is to improve the game in any way you see fit. The end result should be a mass completion of unfinished games and vast improvement on already finished ones.

RULES

You need to declare the source code you’re working from before starting so we can see the difference in the initial and finished games

You can use your own source code from a past game if you want

Team entries are allowed

Many different participant/teams can work off one source code if they want

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Pros:
* This’d be very interesting.
* Stuff that isn’t done can get done. I like stuff that is done.
* Finally, decent music!

Cons:
* Not everyone has the required tools available to them, especially us not-windows users.
* Any takers for something coded in Z80 assembler? (Counter-con: At least it’s not the Gameboy pseudo-Z80. You DO have the IX/IY registers.)

@MrDude: when do you think would be the best time to hold a Mini-LD, it should be held over a weekend preferably. How about Friday 14th Jan – Sunday 16th Jan?

@ACodeGerm & thristhart: I think trying to work with someone else’s code is quite challenging especially if the code is done in a non-familiar way, hopefully the process will allow you to understand how other programmers approach their own work and we should all learn some good lessons from it. We’ll no doubt see some very unique amalgamation of game development skills at the end of the challenge.

The next free Mini-LD is June 2011 according to this page (http://old.ludumdare.com/wiki/mini-host) We can’t wait that long, I think we should do it as an unofficial challenge, sort of like PoV’s challenge in October, that way we could do it much sooner